From security guard to executive director, Haitian immigrant inspires students

Roosevelt Mareus goes from security guard to dean

8:19 PM,
Jan. 23, 2013

Roosevelt Mareus, the dean and executive director of the Rochester Educational Opportunity Center, left, gets a haircut in the barber shop at the school by student Esau Youngblood last week. Mareaus started out as a security guard.

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Roosevelt Mareus likes to lead by example, and has done so in an inspired way.

A decade ago, Mareus was a security officer at the The College at Brockport's Rochester Educational Opportunity Center, which provides career training and college readiness courses to about 1,300 residents a year.